Description
In 1870, the London, Brighton & South Coas Railway (LB&SCR) was struggling to cope with its increasing share of the London suburban traffic, with seventy-two different classes of locomotive in traffic designed by John Chester Craven, the Locomotive Superintendent of the LB&SCR. A hopelessly uneconomic and unsustainable policy, Craven refused to compromise on the issue of standardisation and resigned on 31 January, 1870, to be replaced by William Stroudley
L&BSCR duplicate listed in 1900 as No. 654 Waddon, the locomotive somehow escaped being disposed of and was sold to the SE&CR on 26 August, 1904
